Customer Reviews
Don't bother - By: Joe, 05 Nov 2008 
Just read The Lost Duke of Wyndham & skip this book! Amelia is such a weak character, she is just plain NOT interesting. Like previous reviews, it is all repetition. It was like reading the The Lost Duke of Wyndham AGAIN. Don't buy it, waste of money.
a bit disappointing - By: M. Stone, 12 Oct 2008 
I agree with the previous review, I'm a big fan of Julia Quinn & thought the idea of telling the same story from different perspectives a clever technique but felt a bit cheated by this book, whole chunks of the The Lost Duke of Wyndham were repeated almost verbatim & so I felt like this book wasn't offering much that was actually different. I read the Lost Duke first & this straight afterwards so maybe I would not have noticed so much if I'd read them with more timein between.
The other half of 'The Lost Duke of Wyndham' - By: Helen Hancox, 01 Oct 2008 
'The Lost Duke of Wyndham' was a disappointing readin some ways, with several scenes unexplained as they were to be the focus of this book. I looked forward to reading 'Mr Cavendish, I Presume' as I was rather interestedin what would become of Thomas, the former Duke of Wyndham, & how he would end up with Amelia Willoughby. These questions were answered by this book but, sadly, there wasn't much else new or interestingin it. Many of the scenes are the same asin 'The Lost Duke of Wyndham', although from either Thomas's or Amelia's point of view (rather than Grace or Jack's), & the whole book felt rather repetitive. We experienced the same events a second time from a slightly different point of view with a few different insights into what was happening, but there wasn't much else to the book. Someone who hasn't read the previous book would be able to follow the eventsin this one easily enough as most scenes are explained so it doesn't seem to matterin which order they are read.
Thomas did come across as a rather more likeable character than the rather ineffectual chap of the previous book. Amelia was a good, strong characterin this story, caged by her family's expectations of her & worried, at least initially, that she's marrying a man who barely even notices her. As the book moved forward & it appeared Thomas would no longer be the duke there were some interesting moments as he imagined his life without this enormous part of his identity but overall the story felt thinin places. Julia Quinn has a sparky, lively writing style which is good to read if often historically inaccurate. I was pleased with the wayin which she portrayed Thomas's overarching sense of honour but the overall feeling from this book was that it contained too much repetition from the previous book & not enough new scenes to make it entirely worthwhile reading. I think the pair of books would have worked better merged into one overall story but it was a reasonable read for a rainy summer's afternoon.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2008
